Below is the full text of my interview with POLITICO of May 5th 2020. Here is the link to the website. The EU’s post-coronavirus recovery fund must give countries cash in hand to overturn the recession, the chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs said in an interview with POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.…
by Irene Tinagli, published on Il Sole 24 Ore (18 April 2020) “Politics has its reasons which reason does not know”. This is how we could paraphrase the rather surreal debate that in Italy rotates around ESM. For months oppositions have campaigned on the idea that the ESM is like an axe, a trap created…
Over the past few weeks several criticisms have been raised against the EU institutions, being accused of not having reacted and of not having provided responses to the Coronavirus emergency. On the contrary, if we look carefully we realise it is not so. The EU Commission, the ECB, the European Investment Bank, the European Banking…
I would have never imagined that it would be this hard for some politicians to understand the difference between deciding to modify the rules of a treaty on financial assistance to member states and deciding to resort to it. I would equally have never imagined to witness the level of confusion and comments triggered two…
As anticipated in the past few hours, today the European Commission has delivered a new set of proposed measures to counter the Coronavirus emergency. The most significant part concerns the “SURE” Fund to support employment, but there are also other initiatives. Please find below the full text of the press release with all the details.…
This morning I have chaired the hearing of ECB President Christine Lagarde. I am extremely satisfied of the meeting, as we have touched upon some very important issues. First, it has been important to reflect upon the fundamental role played by the ECB in the past years to preserve the monetary union, to contrast the…
The Digital Tax will be the focus of today’s meetings in Davos. It’s time to move beyond the vetoes and the threats to achieve an international agreement. With some colleagues of the European Parliament we have promoted an initiative for a serious dialogue with the US Congress. It’s important for Europe to express its position…
Thank you Mr. President, Dear Colleagues, On September 17, 2019, Mr. Adam Farkas announced his resignation from his position as Executive Director of the European Banking Authority – which will be effective on January 31, 2020 – to become, starting from February 1, 2020, the CEO of AFME, a well-known lobbying company that – according…
Last Thursday, December 19th, we reached an important agreement that defines a set of criteria applicable to all ECSP – European Crowdfunding Service Providers that raise up to EUR 5 million per year. Crowdfunding is a relatively recent phenomenon which has quickly consolidated itself as an interesting fundraising source for startups and innovative SMEs. However…
Thank you Mr. President Dear Colleagues, dear Commissioner, 240 billion dollars: this is the amount of missing tax revenues due to multinationals’ tax elusion, according to OECD estimates. Researchers from Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen estimated that in 2016 40% of big companies’ profits were shifted to tax heavens every year, corresponding to an…